Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] line with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tsar was prepared , on occasion , to reproach German nobles for allowing the condition of the Estonian and Latvian peasantry to deteriorate , and in educational and especially religious affairs he sanctioned attempts to bring the Baltic provinces into line with the rest of the empire . |
| 2 | The council says it 's trying to save money , and is merely proposing to bring church schools into line with other state schools . |
| 3 | The County Council claims it 's merely proposing to bring church schools into line with other state schools . |
| 4 | At the same time a few modifications were made to bring these cars into line with standard practices , for example , the positions of the route board holders under the saloon windows were slightly altered to take L.C.C . |
| 5 | The move brings the United States into line with the European Community , which acted alone in recognising Croatia and Slovenia in January . |
| 6 | Furse set out to create a Service which would be ‘ a corps d'elite to which … the best type of man … will feel it an honour to belong ’ , and in time and according to his lights , he brought practice into line with theory and made good the boast that those whom England sent out to govern the colonial empire were her finest sons . |
| 7 | The position thus reached brought English practice into line with the majority of decisions in other Commonwealth jurisdictions . |
| 8 | In what , the chairman of the working party responsible for it and president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland , described as ‘ the most fundamental change in audit reporting probably for more than a generation ’ , the SAS seeks to close the so-called expectations gap and bring practice into line with recommendations of the report of the Cadbury committee on corporate governance , of which was also a member . |
| 9 | Children grazed water buffalo along the thick grass of the embankment , beating the huge animals into line with tiny sticks . |
| 10 | Thus with the aileron and rudder held in a central position , a glider will always weathercock into line with the relative airflow , just as the wind vane on a church steeple will always swing into the wind . |
| 11 | The Conservatives vowed in their election manifesto last April to legislate to bring Scots law on carrying knives into line with that in England and Wales . |
| 12 | Sooner , rather than later , Europe will be forced to bring the standard of its financial reporting in line with the rest of the world , not least the US . |
| 13 | Barrow was a White Knight — headhunted to fight off a corporate raider — for whom Kennecott had to pay over $1m. in order to match a clause in Barrow 's contract with Exxon which allowed him bonuses in line with the rising price of the company 's stock . |
| 14 | A lot of patient moves within Friern and Claybury would take place anyway as a result of ward mergers and relocation in line with continuing retrenchment . |
| 15 | It is a praiseworthy achievement to produce a result in line with last year in an economic climate which dampened demand in the retail market and caused considerable well publicised problems for certain companies in the industry . |
| 16 | A mechanism which was proposed in Chapter 2 for explaining the inverted-U relationship was that of attention focusing occurring at higher levels of arousal in line with Easterbrook 's hypothesis . |
| 17 | In small firms doing sub-contract work for the large car assembly plants , where the level of unionisation was weak , and management hired and fired labour in line with demand as it rose and fell , the form of work organisation approximated more closely to that which Braverman describes . |
| 18 | Many Europeans were prepared to treat the far-off Soviet operation as a defensive action in line with the Brezhnev doctrine . |
| 19 | Because of the need to keep premiums in line with claims we have reluctantly had to make the first increase in our basic BUILDINGS rate for many years . |
| 20 | And your premiums in line with erm , increase in inflation , |
| 21 | These were the right decisions , I believe , but had they adopted an average yardstick in 1935 , rather than a maximum , and kept the yardstick in line with actual average production figures , the necessary steps taken would have appeared less dramatic . |
| 22 | At a recent meeting it was disclosed that £350,000 was needed — just to bring its electrics and equipment into line with the Health and Safety Act . |
| 23 | In private talks , and in public statements , several heads of government urged Castro to hold elections in order to bring Cuba into line with other Ibero-American governments . |
| 24 | Government housing policy as we found tonight when we voted on the rates is to bring public sector rents into line with private sector rents . |
| 25 | The courts will , however , have some regard for such conventions presuming that Parliament intended to comply with its moral obligations and bring our law into line with the convention . |
| 26 | Parliament enacted , in the Sex Discrimination Act 1986 , provisions which have the effect of bringing UK national law into line with the Council Directive on which Ms Marshall based her case . |
| 27 | The Act was intended to bring English law into line with the Convention and to implement the Phillimore Committee proposals . |
| 28 | The report contains evidence of torture , maltreatment and abuse of legal process , and calls for extensive changes to bring Malawi law into line with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter . |
| 29 | The first will be designed to bring English and Welsh law into line with Scottish law , which four years ago , under the Debtors ( Scotland ) Act 1987 , abolished in Scotland the medieval barbarity of putting people in prison for civil debt . |
| 30 | He should seek immediate discussions with the Home Office with a view to having the law altered , to bring English and Welsh law into line with Scottish law . |